
Posted 15 hours ago
Head of Pre-Sales
9finHead of Pre-Sales
Perks & benefits
Paid LeaveMedical Insurance
Requirements
10+ years technical sales, 3+ years pre-sales leadership, Experience selling APIs to financial institutions, Experience with Tier 1 bank procurement
Skills
APIFintech
About the role
About the Company
9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, providing proprietary credit data and deep analysis to over 300 blue-chip institutions worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Partner with EMEA and US Sales as the technical owner on Data Feed Products opportunities
- Run technical discovery with CTOs, Heads of Data, Quants, and Engineering Leaders
- Design and run technical validation including sandbox access, PoC plans, and integration timelines
- Facilitate architecture conversations regarding REST, streaming, bulk file, and cloud integration
- Codify the technical validation playbook, including use case libraries and RFI/RFP templates
- Hire, onboard, and coach the founding Product Specialist team and Sales Enablement Manager
- Run a closed loop with Product and Engineering to field technical objections and roadmap gaps
Requirements
- 10+ years in technical sales
- 3+ years leading or building a pre-sales, solutions engineering, or technical account team for financial institutions
- Proven track record of shipping revenue against API or data products sold to banks or buy-side firms
- Experience running vendor selection procurement processes at Tier 1 banks or large buy-side firms
- Strong player-coach instinct with the ability to own live deals and build a team
- Data-driven approach to managing function performance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a modern capital markets technology or financial data vendor
- Experience building a pre-sales function from scratch in a growth-stage company
- Familiarity with credit asset classes like leveraged finance, high-yield, and private credit
- Proficiency with data consumption tools such as Parquet, DuckDB, Polars, and Snowflake
- Exposure to MEDDPICC / MEDDICC
Benefits
- Competitive salary benchmarked at 75-90th percentile of market
- Pension with up to 7% matching
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 holiday days per year
- Hybrid working model
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- Professional learning and development budget
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